Bag Training

[Looneyas]

Any helpful hints of Kick Training on the bag. As I find just doing 10 x kicks per kick is very boring sometimes.

 

I try to make a game like kick bag, switch legs kick on return swith and do the same.

 

Any other ideas

 

Thanks Guys

[Withers M.A.A.]

Try swinging the bag around and move around it. When is swings try to stop the swing and make it go the opposite direction with a round house kick. This will help your footwork and can be more fun than just kicking the bag.

[KickChick]

What type of bag do you have?

 

What Withers posted for the "hanging" type is an excellant drill... add some bob & weave drills with punches/backfists too.

 

I have a heavy free standing bag at home that I love to just kick back and forth across the room with push kicks and turn back kicks.

 

What is it you want to focus on? Power, kick height, cardio, snap, speed, leg strength ... there are many drills that will focus specifically on these areas.

 

My favs are ....I do tension kicks to build up leg and hip flexor/adductor strength. I do alternateing switch roundhouse kicks to work on my footwork and work combos (kick/punch) for sparring.

 

I know you brought this up before http://www.karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=6047 ....

 

if you want me to email some drills I will

[IAMA_chick]

work on combos and act like you are sparring the bag. bounce on your feet and kick. try to work on switching feet and moving around. it may look retarded but it is less boring and it helps. also, work on kicks that you don't do when you are sparring that you want to do, like if you don't use cresent kicks in the ring, use them on your bag and get comfortable with them and you might just be using them in the ring soon.

[Looneyas]

I have a 20kg bag, when you kick the bag its caves in feels like a real kick.

 

I have a 45cm small bag that i just got and im using that for jumping back kick at 7 or 8 feet high (I am a x gymnast i can jump very high).

 

I want to work on speed as i have power just speed.

[KickChick]

For speed kicks, stay on on the balls of your feet and stay loose ... don't set up before you kick.... and kick explosively .... immediately go back on guard for the next kick. Kick ten times with each leg then switch sides for each kick. Next move around going back and forth, circling, etc. changing the height and distance of the bag if you can.

[Looneyas]

Yes agreed dont stance before kick, I play with walking up to the bag and kick fast and hard,

 

Now jumping kicks are harder when raised high, I have one sore butt from missing the floor. Thanbk you for ya info.

[Withers M.A.A.]

If you have a stationary bag such as a Wavemaster you can move around it then use the base for leverage and pop up off it and do a jump round kick. Almost as if kicking someone with a front kick and using their stomach for leverage before hitting them with a round kick.

[KickChick]

That is one of my favorite combos to work on the wavemaster.

 

Actually we have "kick goal" at our school to see just how many front-round combos one can do without landing.

 

It goes like this... Left foot forward, Front kick off back leg(right) throwing an immediate roundhouse off front leg (left) and an immediate front with back leg again.... and if you're "up" to it another roundhouse off front!

[glingglo]

i love doing progressive kicking combos... they require the most strength at the end when you're the most tired. it helps you find those inner reserves you might not realize you have. i usually go up to 10, so i'll throw one kick, put my foot down and that's one; then 2 kicks just flicking my leg twice without putting it down, and that's two; then 3 kicks without putting my leg down... and so on. by the time you're doing 10 kicks in a row without dropping your knee, you're pretty tired!